Portable combination power-tool



E. S. POND.

PORTABLE COMBINATION POWER TOOL.

APPHCATION- HLED FEB. 14, 1918.

mnmdmw. 18,1919

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTCRNEY man s. roan, or TOLEDO, onto.

PORTABLE COMBINATION PUWETt-TOOL.

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Specification of Letters lfatent.

latcn ted Nor, lid, lltl llfi Application filed February 14, 1918. Serial No, 217,285.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, Ezna S. Pom), a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State t Ohio, have invented a new and useful Portable Combination Power-Tool, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to portable tools capable of being driven by power and adapted to various purposes.

The object of the invention is to provide a power tool of small size that may be used in closely confined places and still be light enough to be readily carried about from place .to place by hand.

he invention comprises a motor of hand size, preferably elcctricall driven but it may be of any other suitable type, and

mounted on the motor is a yoke arranged to carry a tool shaft. The armature shaft of the motor, considerlng it as an electric motor, projects beyond both ends of the motor casing and, is there pr-ovidcd,,with pulleys, while the tool shaft has correspondlng pulleys connected to the pulleys on the armature shaft by power transmitting means such as belts. The motor is provided with suitable handles for its manipulation, and one of the handles may contain for the control of the motor circuit.

The invention will be best understood from aconsideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, with the undorstanolin however, that the invention. is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawing, but may be changed and modified so long as such changes and modifications come Within the scope of the an pended claim.

In the drawings tlti Figure .1 is a face view of the tool.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the tool.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a motor 1 which may be taken as il'ldicative of any suitable power device but will hereinafter be considered as ,an electric motor without necessarily confining the motor structure to an electric motor. The motor is provided with a through armaturr shaft 2 projecting beyond both ends of the motor casing, and beyond each end oi the motor casing the shaft carries a pulley 3 and a chuck 4. The casing is provided with handies 5 a-ndfi shown as pro3ectmg from the switch means any other suitable type for closing and opening the circuit.

Mounted on the casing l on the side thereof remote from the handle 5 is a yoke or bracket 8 having a spread at the ends of its arms sul'licient to accommodate any tool for which the machine is adapted. The yoke 8 has a base portion 9 curved in con formity with the curvature of the casing 1, which latter is of cylindrical outline, and having a sufficient extent to so embrace the casing that the yoke when seated thereon cannot turn on the casing. This makes it possible to secure the yoke to the. casing by a single bolt or screw 10.

The ends of the arms of the yoke 8 terminate in journalbearings 11 for a tool shaft 12.- The journal bearings 11 are conveniently made of the split type so that wear may be taken up by screws 13 in the customary manner. The ends of the shaft 12 carry pulleys 14 which may be similar to the pulleys 3 and connecting the pulleys 3 and 14 are belts 15 either of the plain type or of the noiseless link type, or any other suitable means of transmitting power from the shaft 2 to the shaft 12 may be used.

On the shaft 12 between the arms of the yoke 8 there is mounted, in the particular showing of the drawing, an abrasive drum 16 which may be taken as indicative of any suitable device for the purpose, whether it may be an emery wheel or drum, butter wheel or drum, or a carborunduni drum, or a sandpaper wheel, and these various devices may be of any length or diameter desired. The shaft may carry saws of dillerent sizes for wood or metal and the chucks 4 may be used for drills orothcr tools olililrc nature. Furthermore, the tool may have gages or stops attached thereto tor rcgulatltllll ing depth of cut, but as such devices are.

ltllll -mitting the power may be varied according'ly.

T'he'device is particularly useful for work ing-by hand in eloseplaces upon any type of material with avoidance of loss of time usually encountered in hand work.

,In order to remove and replace tools, one or both of the pulleys. 14 may be made to be readily. removed from the tool shaft.

' What isclaimed is:

A self-contained portable balanced hand tool, comprising a power motor with a cas- 4 and extending from both ends of the casing,-

ing inelosing it, handle means directly on the. casing for carrying and manipulating thetool, a power shaft driven by the motor a. yoke rigidly fastened at its base to the motor casing with its arms diverging away therefrom and terminating in journal bearings, a tool shaft mounted in the hearings on the yoke and parallel with the power shaft so as to dispose the tool in spaced relation to the motor, and power transmitting belt connections between both ends of the power shaft and both ends of the tool shaft.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my owngl have hereto afiixed my signature'in the presence of two witnesses.

EZRA S. POND. \Vitnesses BENJ. L. BoYN, A. E. KRUsn. 

